Example sentences of "[that] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Look at three things in a shop and make sure that the last thing you ask the price of is the thing you want . ’ |
| 2 | Abutting the Skeleton Coast , that legendary graveyard of mariners and ships , it is here that the last of the world 's black rhino range free , while galloping hyenas and lunging kudu buck comprise the main traffic hazards . |
| 3 | You might have thought that the last bastion of resistance to computers would come from the classic craft environment of hand animation . |
| 4 | He noted that the last MPs did not leave Grenada until 18 months after the 1983 invasion . |
| 5 | Everywhere one looked there were unaccustomed trophies on display and , when the visiting Ryder Cup team arrived at The Belfry in the last few moments of the decade , they were greeted by the sight of the Ryder , Curtis and Walker Cups , knowing that the last name on them was not that of the United States of America . |
| 6 | George Bush finally admitted that parts of the American economy are ‘ clearly in a recession ’ , claiming that the last quarter of 1990 will have been the worst . |
| 7 | A sense of an ending , a millenarian impulse perhaps , a fear that the Last Days are coming . |
| 8 | Looking back at that period , the crucial difference in Conservative politicians was between those who thought that the last twenty or thirty years had not been too bad , and who were sceptical that anything better could be achieved , and those who hoped that something better could be won and saw the last quarter of a century as a slow but steady decline . |
| 9 | This is for the sensible reason that the last thing ministers want to do is to listen to an argument about figures being wrong . |
| 10 | It is so easy for Western protestantism to fall into the trap of thinking that the last week of Jesus ' life is all-important . |
| 11 | Instead , there came to be a vehement emphasis on the ending of the age of miracle and revelation now that the last of the twelve apostles was dead . |
| 12 | The Führer 's claim that his work had been sabotaged for years , and that the German war machine could run at full stretch now that the last plot had been foiled , was seen to demonstrate that the people had long been lied to in earlier statements that time was on Germany 's side and war production increasing . |
| 13 | Namely , that the last people who want the tower restored to the vertical are the Pisans . |
| 14 | When I began to re-read letters , and to research in records , official histories , biographies and first-hand accounts of activities behind the enemy lines in France , it emerged that the last enigma was in fact a double enigma . |
| 15 | Some species grew in such a way that the last whorl overlaps the inner ones ; often these species become flat and discus-shaped : it has been suggested that this was a more ‘ streamlined ’ shape for active swimmers . |
| 16 | It was during the early part of his occupation that the last of the Painswick cloth mills finally went out of business and a number of others , such as Damsell 's , were converted to other uses . |
| 17 | Corn was shipped along the Stroudwater canal to Oil Mill , although it may well be that the last half mile or so of the Painswick Stream was once navigable . |
| 18 | It was in these few rooms that the last act of the drama took place , for the rest of the building remained unused except for those rooms near to the Empress 's apartments where her few attendants camped out , sleeping on improvised beds and working , when necessary , on the corners of tables hastily cleared to provide space on which to write . |
| 19 | On the day that the last of the articles appeared , the Zionist Federation staged a demonstration outside the London offices of The Times , some of their supporters holding placards which announced that the paper was ‘ a new Arab secret weapon ’ and that the PLO would be the next owner of The Times . |
| 20 | From the logbooks we saw that the last periodical examination had been omitted , but Lt. Lewes decided they were okay . |
| 21 | But can we be sure that the last three decades of sustained growth in crime are not a recording phenomenon ( Bottomley and Pease , 1986 ) ? |
| 22 | Originally it had been planned that the Last Judgement in the Sistine Chapel should be painted a secco in oil , but he insisted on carrying out the work al fresco since he considered oil painting to be only ‘ fit for women and slovenly people ’ ! |
| 23 | He claims that the last shelf time period recorded on a book is highly predictive of future use , and gives a description of a simple method by which such information is examined and analysed to provide a basis for the weeding of stock . |
| 24 | One thing is certain , that the last Lord Derwentwater , not long before his death , was frequently at Keswick , but according to Green it is not equally certain , that he then ( as is affirmed by some ) inhabited the house upon the island ; on the contrary , it rather seems that his being at Keswick , was only on visits from his family place at Dilston . |
| 25 | Note that the last 3-cycle is equal to ( UF , DF ) followed by ( UF , UB ) . |
| 26 | Not only does this mean that science is handled by a senior member of the Canadian cabinet — a tax lawyer who once said that the last thing that Canada needs is more tax lawyers — but also it means that science and technology are seen as a part of the process of economic development . |
| 27 | Members were told that the last grave space was dealt with in February , although there were still double depth family spaces . |
| 28 | The departure of Rauschning was significant because it meant that the last liberal conscience , the last internal barrier to the complete and violent Nazification of the city had now been removed . |
| 29 | By the time she drained her glass she also knew that the last van to leave for the country about three weeks ago had been Chertsey bound . |
| 30 | Public health officials did all in their power to stop the 1964 pie going ahead ; there was a typhoid epidemic in Aberdeen in the 1960 's and it was found that the last serious epidemic before that had been in Denby Dale in the 1930's , and the infection can linger for many years . |